Good for you but we don't all live in large cities or participate in "the" industry.

I have a similar situation with a smaller system in rural CO (4kw panels, 6kw inverter, 15kwH batteries).

If you get far enough out it ceases to matter.

The (unpermitted, about 25-year-old) shacks I live in never had power and getting an easement was prohibitively expensive. It doesn't impact anyone but me (and potentially my son, who will inherit this mess when I die in 30 or so years).

There are codes here, and codes enforcement. But it's largely complaint driven and I suspect that all my neighbors are in a similar situation.

If I were in town and could get utilities I'd prefer that, but the county won't even pick up the last 1/2 mile of roads to where I am living... maybe if they'd do that I'd consider only building things that are permitted.

Generally not outside of the bar-band level, but it is highly variable.

I mean, I certainly am looking forward to taking negative positions about the deaths of folks I am interested in...

if I bet $50K that arowthway won't die suddenly then I am sure that probably won't happen, right?

I'm not familiar with this writer. I'm not surprised- I know many hundreds of fairly good writers who live and die, many without recording much of their work. It's not at all uncommon in this world.

What is rare is that there is a good enough story to some company think re-releasing a record might get some interest.

For about 15 years, I stage managed the New Folk competition at the Kerrville folk festival. It was pretty impressive to see 24 singer songwriters (selected from a poool of 600-1000 or so) all play over the course of 2 concerts, bringing whatever they thought was their best material.

Even weirder was going to Folk Alliance this year and running into all these folks who are slightly familiar... "oh, yeah, I remember you- I put a mic in from of you for 3 songs, 8 years ago".

Of the 800 or so songs I have heard there over the years most were as good as anything I hear outside these little folk music spots.

I know a solid 100 or so folks who put out an album of good work and then went on to live their lives. It's such a hard thing to make money off it that our time gets spent up doing all of the many, many other things in life that are compelling but pay better.

Still, if you look, you'll find folks who are out there writing songs to play. Even better, they are still alive and get really happy when you give them some cash for a tip.

In my teens I was really into '60s and '70s counterculture and spent most of my nights looking up music from that era. Among all the lesser-known gems with surprising longevity (e.g. Tractor), there were hundreds - if not thousands - of bands with only one or two albums. A few times I was so fascinated by these short-lived bands that I looked up the musicians and reached out to them on Facebook (in its early days). All of them responded and were surprised and happy to chat about their band. And yeah... they just live "normal" non-musician lives now.

I'm really surprised that you're that deep into folk and have never heard of Connie Converse. She's turned up on my radar multiple times over the past couple of decades, and I don't go looking for her, or much folk content.

I guess it underlines that we all live in filter bubbles - I had assumed she was more well-known than she really is based on news stories like this. Every other artist mentioned on this page? I've never heard of them. Off to youtube...

Well, to be fair, I don't listen to a lot of recorded music, and while I hear a lot of music it's mostly in whatever circles I am in.

For instance, I learned "Big Cheesburgers" by Blaze Foley picking bass on stage during a performance at a winery long before I ever heard a recording of him playing it. Same with, say Chick Pyle's "Jaded Lover" or Nancy Griffth's "I Wish it Would Rain" or, for that matter, Rodney Crowell's "I Wish It Would Rain". Those are all folks I either met in passing or knew folks who knew them well.

So while I have a pretty deep familiarity with music from folks with Texas connections, I don't know a whole lot of stuff outside of that area unless there is a connection to my proximately local folk festivals... David Amram or Stan Rodgers or Trout Fishing in America for instance.

I don't think I am unique in that approach to folk music. A lot the lineage of that stuff is mostly people playing in song circles or in small performances picking up a song from someone else, who in turn picked it up from someone, going back to Leadbelly or whoever.

I like recordings- it's super frustrating to hear a song and then not be able to find it anywhere. Especially if I want to learn it and add it to the other 400 or so songs I have memorized at any time, or go back and re-learn something.

Bubbles are real, but I am okay with them because in a certain sense that's what it means to be in a community. But communities aren't usually fragile like bubbles, and folks can come and go without gatekeeping, so that seems closer to how I think about these systems for knowing about folks.

"No need for hyperbolics, no one will take you seriously."

There are some groups of people, many on this forum or even this thread, whose respect for my position would make me believe there is likely an error in my position.

> I'd say the differences are purely aesthetic

I would have a hard time arguing that after seeing Alex Pretti's public execution. I also think we can at least partially agree on who should be targeted (emphasis my own):

> Carefully calibrated revisions to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement priorities and practices [...] *[made] noncitizens with criminal records the top enforcement target* [0]

I consider there to be a gulf of difference between the murder of American citizens in-between detaining anyone caught speaking the wrong language, and Obama's DHS and immigration policy.

> any position other than that is just racism with extra steps

Here I'll politely disagree to agree; in the same way Uber and Lyft flooded the driver market and collapsed the price of a medallion, so to does open borders flood the market with workers, collapsing the worth of my labour.

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deporta...

You haven't been paying attention. And that's ok. Obama was destroying families, and killing peoples, he just did it out of sight with a charming smile.

You think people deported by him didn't die as a result? You think his massive expansion of drone violence didn't kill people living lives as rich and complex as Pretti's? You don't remember Obama deciding not to prosecute people for Abu Ghraib?

I mean, the fact that it's Pretti who you're drawing the distinction on might indicate to you where your racial biases are here.

Aesthetic differences are differences: red is not blue, afterall.

However,

I was. We were doing things, yall just didn't pay attention/

Having produced, performed in, and engineered a number of shows and festivals, this is a terrible idea for a pricing strategy.

Consider portajohns for an outdoor festival- incentivizing folks to wait until the last possible minute makes it impossible to determine what the needs are there, so how do you plan for how many shitters you need to bring and maintain for, say, a 3-day festival?

Consider that "festivals discount early sales" might be a kind of Chesterton's Fence, and you might question why they do that...

Not everything sells out right away, though. I've bought concert tickets on the day of the show more than once. Somehow they still managed to have all the concessions staffed.

But regardless, the formula for decreasing the price could be adjusted. For example, it could be an exponential decay toward the reserve price, with the decay rate set so that most of the decline in price is early.

Or, for shows that are entirely general admission, like festivals, you could use the alternative form of dutch auction: when tickets go on sale, everyone bids what they're willing to pay for some number of tickets. Then the bidding closes (with ample time for planning), and the bids are cleared in descending order of price, and everyone pays the amount of the lowest clearing bid. This method would find a price closer to the true market price of a ticket and discourage speculators.

The issue is that most events don't even sell out. This is a terrible idea.